Alan Wake: The Writer is an adventure developed by Remedy Entertainment, released 12 October 2010 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Alan Wake: The Writer is
Alan Wake: The Writer is an adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2010. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, with a Windows version following in February 2012 and a remastered version released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows in October 2021, as well as a Nintendo Switch version in October 2022. The story follows bestselling crime thriller novelist Alan Wake as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small fictional town of Bright Falls, Washington, all while experiencing events from the plot of his latest novel, which he cannot remember…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Alan Wake: The Writer holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Players rate it 81, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Alan Wake: The Writer launched on 12 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alan Wake: The Writer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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